Please do a Talking Watches with Roland! It looks like he has an amazing collection and I’d love to see some further detail on them. Great job, Hodinkee!
Yes, finally excellent watch collecting content, humanizing what timepieces are and the people behind them. I’m so over the flex culture, investment pieces and hype behind watch collecting. It’s so nice to see segments highlighting the soul and heartbeat behind the watch industry✨🙌🏻✨
This is an absolutely fantastic video. Thank you for sharing this story and diving into American watch making to share with us. Keep up the great work.
Another great episode. I've always skipped over Hamilton. Don't really know why. But I love the rich history of the company, especially with its efforts in WWI and WWII. It's def made me think to relook at the khaki field automatic to add to my collection. And been introduced to RGM. Had never heard of them before.
that parlor car in the beginning is the car I always book when I take my kids to ride the trains at christmas. Ive been going there since I was a kid. Last year I left the Cannes Lions festival early to fly back to Philly and go straight to Lancaster to be the engineer of one of the trains for the Strasburg railroad in cab experience - I cant speak highly enough about the railroad there. One of the coolest places to stay is right up the street at the red caboose motel - every room is a separate train caboose.
Three generations of my family worked for Hamilton. My grandfather, Milton F. Manby, had an office in the plant. I have pictures of him in the oil research laboratory.
A great video! If you’re going to use terms like sailor and soldier, you should consider saying airmen, and not pilot. They are one of many crew members.
I hope so, or at least a stop in their area as the series moves west. Ball is such an integral part of railroad timekeeping history that it would be a shame (or something else, perhaps) if they got overlooked.
Fabulous episode. very educational and enjoyable. I own a few vintage Hamilton watches and never knew this much about the company or the watches. G'Day from Sydney Australia.
Superb episode. Nice to see Rory, formerly Curator of Horology at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, near where I live. But did you make it up the ladder to adjust the clock to daylight savings? The VT cut short rather abruptly at that point 😂
Great series, it’s wonderful to see the American and especially Lancaster’s place in the watch industry. RGM is tribute to present day, affordable, American watch manufacturers. RGM also repairs most brands.
Thank goodness for RU-vid. Had to give up watching this on the Hodinkee website. Both episodes stalled at two minutes in on my iPad. Having now watched both episodes, I must say what an extremely enjoyable series this is. Can’t wait for episode three.👍
Bravo. I hope to see more content like this. Grounded stories that shed light on the intangible connections between watches and people, watches and places. The watch world could do with a lot more of this and a lot less of the mindless consumerist content that goes around these days. Keep it up 👍
@@brnrubber303 this is a watchmaking through America series. There was no “comparison” of Hamilton to Shinola. The fact that Shinola is probably the largest watch company in America makes it pretty self explanatory why it should be in the series.
